Semantic Layer Contract Job Trends in England

Semantic Layer
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Semantic Layer skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 550 483 552
Rank change year-on-year -67 +69 +151
Contract jobs citing Semantic Layer 12 2 9
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.035% 0.008% 0.024%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.21% 0.042% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 1 5
10th Percentile £486 - £503
25th Percentile £500 £575 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £513
Median % change year-on-year - +17.07% -
75th Percentile £716 £625 £519
90th Percentile £739 - £526
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £513
% change year-on-year -4.17% +17.07% -

All Database & BI Skills
England

Semantic Layer falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 5,593 4,792 6,101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.12% 18.67% 16.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,892 3,240 4,379
10th Percentile £341 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £535
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +0.47% -2.73%
75th Percentile £600 £663 £660
90th Percentile £700 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 85 155
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £15.71
25th Percentile £26.69 £25.26 £21.64
Median hourly rate £54.75 £40.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +35.19% -4.71% -25.26%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £61.63
90th Percentile £86.00 £72.25 £77.11
UK median hourly rate £54.75 £38.11 £42.50
% change year-on-year +43.66% -10.33% -22.73%

Semantic Layer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Semantic Layer relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Semantic Layer job vacancy trend in England

Semantic Layer
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Semantic Layer.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Semantic Layer

Semantic Layer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Semantic Layer in England over the 6 months to 23 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Semantic Layer in England

Semantic Layer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Semantic Layer within the England region over the 6 months to 23 February 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -30 7 £575 - 12
East of England - 2 £500 -
South East - 2 £750 - 4
South West - 1 £700 - 1
Semantic Layer
UK

Semantic Layer
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (8.33%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (8.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (8.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 8 (66.67%) Power Platform
2 5 (41.67%) Azure
2 5 (41.67%) dbt
3 2 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon S3
4 1 (8.33%) AWS
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Functions
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (8.33%) Entra ID
4 1 (8.33%) GCP
4 1 (8.33%) Lucidchart
4 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (8.33%) Serverless
4 1 (8.33%) Snowflake
4 1 (8.33%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (66.67%) Power BI
2 4 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (33.33%) Metadata
3 3 (25.00%) Delta Lake
4 2 (16.67%) Data Lake
4 2 (16.67%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (8.33%) BigQuery
5 1 (8.33%) Looker
5 1 (8.33%) OLAP
5 1 (8.33%) OLAP Cube
5 1 (8.33%) Parquet
5 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
5 1 (8.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (8.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (8.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (8.33%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) ER Studio
1 1 (8.33%) ERwin
1 1 (8.33%) Git
General
1 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Legal
3 1 (8.33%) Local Government
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Architect
2 3 (25.00%) Data Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Data Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Data Modeller
3 2 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Business Intelligence Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Business Intelligence Solutions Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Solutions Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Data Warehouse Architect
4 1 (8.33%) GCP Data Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) GCP Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Lead
4 1 (8.33%) Ontologist
4 1 (8.33%) SAP Architect
4 1 (8.33%) SAP Solutions Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Senior
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) JSON
1 1 (8.33%) JSON-LD
1 1 (8.33%) MDX
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Data Structures
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (8.33%) Data Fabric
2 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (8.33%) IoT
2 1 (8.33%) Linked Data
2 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
2 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (8.33%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) Data Modelling
2 8 (66.67%) Analytics
2 8 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (41.67%) Data Engineering
3 5 (41.67%) Data Governance
4 4 (33.33%) Data Architecture
4 4 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (25.00%) AI
5 3 (25.00%) Data Integration
6 2 (16.67%) Data Ingestion
6 2 (16.67%) Data Lineage
6 2 (16.67%) Data Protection
6 2 (16.67%) Data Science
6 2 (16.67%) Dimensional Modelling
6 2 (16.67%) Machine Learning
6 2 (16.67%) Master Data Management
6 2 (16.67%) Observability
6 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (16.67%) Use Case
6 2 (16.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) SQL
2 4 (33.33%) Python
3 2 (16.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (8.33%) LookML
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Azure Certification
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (8.33%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (16.67%) Accessibility
3 1 (8.33%) EU AI Act
3 1 (8.33%) GDPR
3 1 (8.33%) NIST
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Databricks
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Ariba
2 1 (8.33%) Concur
2 1 (8.33%) Google
2 1 (8.33%) SAP
2 1 (8.33%) Sparx